But for YOU i will

‘one of the smart ways to answer people’s questions is to ask them back when they ask you, by doing this, you are guiding them to think…’

Sounds familiar? I believe that we all have heard something like this…

That’s true, a lot of times when we think deeper / look back, we can usually find the answer ourselves, but just that a lot of times we tend to focus on what we are doing /encountering, until we can’t remember the starting point, which is the purpose.

I am not a typical type of thinker, but sometimes i do spend time pondering things of my life…purpose, vision, conviction, plan…etc…

It’s interesting that sometimes you don’t even know whether you are pondering because you have questions or you are pondering to have questions. It just seems like the more you ponder the more ‘question marks’ you have…It’s even more interesting that when we try to ask God ‘Why?’, then God asks us back ‘Why?’

But…now i realise that,

It’s because, God sees that we have the answers ourselves…

yea…we have the answers ourselves, because God gives us the wisdom to make decisions for HIM…

But still, sometimes when God speaks to us we will be like ‘God are you sure? Why?’

‘Why you ask me why?’ (when this kind of questions is asked back by God, this is the time when we really need to use God-given wisdom to ponder / think through, and be serious about finding the answers.)

Dear God, thank YOU, for all the guidance and covering, i know YOU are with me all the time. Please forgive me if sometimes i still doubt, despite all the blessings and favour that YOU have given me.

But no matter how, i will choose to live my life for YOU.

‘Where would i be, if not for Your grace…’

I am not a very ambitious person / an adventurer by nature, but for YOU, i will take this step, by Faith.

Covenant friendship can be so romantic – for Sunny

Dear Sunny,

有你真好:-)

Remember that you were the first ever girl that i talked to in CCM, remember that gold coast day trip? Remember what made us share so much during the trip? just simply because we both loved Sun Yan Zi’s songs…hehe..then we had the same water baptism during Melbourne OC 07, entered the same membership class…

It’s been 2 years plus already since we knew each other, in the past two years, we are the witnesses of each other’s growth, thanks for being together with me along the journey.

07/02/09 is a special day for both of us, because this is the day that we declared our covenant friendship. Let’s celebrate it every year:)

My dear covenant friend, thank you for all the understanding, love, encouragement, and support all this while, i LOVE you!

We are going back to Melbourne soon, i’m sure it will bring back heaps of memory between 2 of us:) Ready for it? I pray that we both will experience breakthroughs in the coming OC!

This album is dedicated for you:

Thank you for this bear, ’she’ is the witness of our covenant friendship:)

Return to blogging

Just realised that i had been having this blog for nearly two years…

From july 07 to now, 21 posts have been produced…not too bad hey:P

Whenever I look back, I am like “TIME FLIES…”, Can’t imagine that my third year in Brisbane has already started, didn’t plan to stay in Australia at all when i first came, but interestingly i am still here now…(LEGALLY^^)

I am now officially in the Real World, just had my graudation 2 weeks ago, wow…that BIG day!So unforgettable, actually i was really touched by everyone, really thank God for this sweet family in Brisbane:)by the way, mum really enjoyed her holiday in Brisbane, she really loves us:)mum, we love you as well:)

Looking for a job at the moment, hmmm….it’s really not easy, but i trust in God for His provision, as i believe that if He calls me to stay, He has already had a wonderful plan for me, and He will also provide me with things that i need.

A lot of things are happening around these days, which make me feel a little bit overwhelmed, but it’s still fine, at least i believe that everything is in control:)

Waiting for a job, waiting for everything to be settled down…the time of waiting is always longer than the time of getting what you are waiting for, but at the end of the day, we will realise that, we have learnt the most from the process, this is the time when God moulds us and grows us. Blessings always come along with obedience.

God sometimes allows us to go through some situations to let us know how much we love Him, doesn’t mean that if we choose to love Him more we will not get what we wish for at all, it means, in all the circumstances, if we first choose to acknowledge our relationship with God, He will acknowledge us as well. So, God i trust in You, as You have never failed me.

Go Nilla!

ConVicTion

I think my faithful blog deserves a faithful update! hehe!

 

Just wanna share something that I have learnt in the cell leadership CDS.

 

I believe that as Christians, especially those who are already in the leadership teams, we all have faith at different levels, but sometimes we just need something to activate the faith inside us, which is our conviction.

 

Our faith determines whether we will step forward for God, but our convictions determine how big and how firm the step is. And I realise that, convictions always come with an intimate relationship with God and our trust in Him. If a stranger came to me and asked me to go somewhere to meet him/her at a specific time, my first response will be: ‘Who are you? Why I should go there? What is gonna be there?’ and I will be having a lot of assumptions in my mind. But if someone who I am very close with, and who I trust a lot, came to me and ask me to meet somewhere at a specific time, I won’t even think about what is gonna happen there, because I trust this person enough and I believe that He/She won’t ask me to do something because of no reason, and more importantly, I know that, this person will be there with me when I go there, and I won’t be alone.

 

Same thing can be applied into our walk with God, if we know Him well and trust Him enough; we will therefore have a strong conviction that He will be there with us no matter where He calls us to. And if we have such a strong conviction, we will be bold enough to take a bigger step for Him.

 

I was reminded of the verse in Romans 8: 31 of the Bible. It says ‘What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?’ yes, if we have a strong conviction that He is with us, nothing will stop us from stepping forward for Him.

Time is flying

Haven’t been updating my blog for ages. When i was looking for my first entry, i realised that i’ve been having this blog for more than a year. Time is flying faster and faster, 2008 seems to be the fastest ever year in my life, can’t imagine that i am getting 23 soon. But praise God that my skin condition hasn’t changed that much in the past few years.hehe…

It’s dangerous when you look back but you can’t see any difference between the ‘current you’ and the ‘past you’. But thank God that now when i look back i can really see the changes in myself. Girls always like recalling the old memory, sometimes i do this as well, thinking of all those things happened in the past, and the people in the past, i used to get emotional easily when i was thinking of the past, but now i think i can face it with a smile:)because when i see my past, i can also see the growth in me.

Didn’t think of staying in Australia at all before i came, didn’t think of being involved in the church ministries at all, didn’t think of being a shepherd at all, didn’t think of leading Praise and Worship in LG at all. But now i am doing all of these, and i am happy with all of these. We always have a plan for our lives, but God’s plan always convince ours. When i look back i understand why God brought me to Brisbane at that time. He has a plan for me to come here, and a reason for me to stay here.

Getting busier and busier these days, things in hands never seem to be less, that’s good though, that means i can do more for God:)

It’s true that when we grow our challenges grow as well, i used to find someone to talk to when i get stressed, but i realised that not everyone could understand me all the time. Instead of looking for encouragement and comfort from somewhere else, now i choose to spend some time with God first, because He is always the first aider in all situations:) He makes me understand and makes me smile again:)